You, dear readers, have put some faith in my humble recordings here. And you have trusted me to avoid whining about easy targets like politicians and organized religion.
But even curmudgeons have their limits of patience. This was tested recently while I was calmly and happily watching a Lois and Clark rerun. (Mostly because, on Seinfeld, Lois told us that "they ARE real, and they ARE spectacular.") Anyway, the station ran one of those government-required Emergency Broadcasting drills in the middle of the show.
Born in the days when the Ruskies were the evil villains and we actually watched a live TV signal, this concept is as dead as the USSR.
Ahh, but not the department of paid bureaucrats who perpetuate this dinosaur. Of course not - there are pensions to be had - and taxpayers to be had. Worst of all, they pissed off a curmudgeon by needlessly interrupting the show he was watching.
You really, really don't want to do that. Our tempers are foul enough.
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